From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximum files per Directory
Date: 1 May 2001 13:58:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9cn80u$u19$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <272800000.988750082@hades>
Followup to: <272800000.988750082@hades>
By author: Andreas Rogge <lu01@rogge.yi.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> While trying to create 100.000 (in words: one hundred thousand) Mailboxes
> with
> cyrus-imapd i ran into problems.
> At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be
> more files in a directory.
>
> Is this a vfs-Issue or an ext2-issue?
>
Not correct, there can't be more than 2^15 *directories* in a single
directory. I belive this is an ext2 limitation.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-01 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-01 20:48 Maximum files per Directory Andreas Rogge
2001-05-01 20:58 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-05-01 22:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-04 13:49 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-04 19:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-04 20:08 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-05 13:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-05-05 16:16 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-01 21:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-01 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-02 10:22 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-02 16:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-02 13:33 ` Ketil Froyn
2001-05-02 9:21 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
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